President-elect Barack Obama tapped former Clinton attorney Gregory Craig as his White House counsel on Wednesday and said campaign strategist David Axelrod will join him in Washington as a senior adviser.

On his first full day as the likely Republican presidential nominee, John McCain fended off discussion of specific potential running mates but made clear he sees no requirement to pick someone from a different region.

A Pennsylvania college that was the scene of a protest against Vice President Cheney is trying to start a movement to ban politicians from holding closed meetings restricted to supporters on all campuses in the nation.

Former Vice President Al Gore said Friday he was "deeply honored" to be a co-winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to spread awareness of man-made climate change and help find ways to combat it.